215. It's "rare" to find an American who can speak in complete sentences? What does that say about

college education these days? Not much I guess... Can you give me some indication as to just how rarely you encounter Americans who communicate using complete sentences? 1 in 10? Less?

Also, I'm a little curious about how you come to guage a person's mathematical skills. Do you pose simple arithmetic problems to them during your dealings? And just what do you consider to be "simple arithmetic"? Is it addition? Subtraction? Single-place multiplication? Long division? That one really has my curiosity piqued... I interact with people all day long every day and never realized that I walk away from the encounter no wiser about what their math skill are. I wonder if any of them will think me strange if I ask "What's 7x9?"